CANOES ON TRANSPORTATION DAY—Transportation Day was a great day all over the Fair grounds, not merely when the aristocratic blooded horses, with modern turn-outs, jostled lumbering camels and reindeer, and when an ox hitched to a rude cart might have nearly run over a palanquin, but upon the ponds and bayous and the canals, where the odd craft of different races swept along together in fantastic contrast. The scene in the illustration is evidently one afforded when there was some rest in the movement, and evidently, also, at a point just east of the northern end of the Wooded Island, since the Japanese buildings appear distinctly in the background. The canoes are at rest. The one in front contains an Eskimo, the one beyond a Penobscot Indian, and the one still beyond that a writer accompanying the procession with a rower behind him. The boats yet nearer the Island appear to be occupied by sailors from the Battleship Illinois. Of course, the water exhibit of Transportation Day attracted comparatively little attention, either from the visiting thousands or from the press, on a scale so much more gigantic and impressive was the parade upon the roadways, the equal of which, in many respects, was probably never known in history. Very few of the fête days of the fair afforded more picturesque scenes than did this. The transportation exhibit was a vast one. Its resources were taxed to the utmost on this occasion, and there was very much attention paid to the spectacle from outside sources. It was an unique and instructive panorama of the moment.

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